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Please remember, the walk posters are unpaid volunteers. They do their best to arrange with each other a wide mix of walks. Most of them like feedback, suggestions, and to be appreciated (= buy them a drink once in a while).

If you'd like a particular walk posted, you could reach out to you favourite walk poster, or ask for a "Blogger" invite so you can post it yourself (say, if you want to post a regular early-and-long or short-and-late walk).

Another request to make the most of the longer Summer days (why not)? So, along with the Cotswolds, some other ideas are Isle of Wight day walk, Salisbury to Stonehenge, New Forest and Bournemouth area. Also, perhaps the possibility of overnight stays? Sylvia

We've had some great overnight trips in the past to places in Devon and Dorset in the summer months. How about doing another one in mid August to somewhere on the coast again, eg around Dartmouth, or around Weymouth as a new area to explore? We could always go back to Swanage, or Lulworth! Sylvia C (I'm in agreement with other Sylvia who posted the previous post!)

Overnight trips are always fun, but you don't have to wait for walk posters to organise them for you. Anyone can plan such a weekend, email details to saturdaywalkers@yahoo.co.uk and someone will post them on the site for you.

One problem can be finding places which have lots of free single rooms on Friday or Saturday nights in August. It is peak holiday time and Friday or Saturday is the night most likely to be booked up. B&Bs and the like often want a commitment to more than one night's stay.

As Summer has finally started with a predicted heatwave this week and next P L E A S E PLEASE can we have some swimming / seaside walks ? Deal, Folkestone, Sandling and anywhere else that's good for a cooling swim basically ? it's time to make the most of the sun..Thanks

Two or three years ago, I was doing on of the scheduled walks near Eastbourne. There came by the one remaining Vulcan bomber. I'd heard of this plane, but never seen one before. It's an amazing spectacle, and makes a sound worth travelling a long way to hear.

There's a charity dedicated to raising the £4m pa needed to keep it flying. It reports that the technicians with the skills to keep it in the air are in many cases retired, and it's all getting too difficult, for which reason this is the last year one can see the Vulcan other than as a static display. I've booked myself into the Bournemouth air festival to catch one of the last opportunities to see it. Others are listed at http://www.vulcantothesky.org/appearances.html, the Eastbourne and Shoreham items in August being potential opportunities for combining with a walk.

A swimming walk would be good this saturday (August 1st). The long man of Wilmington walk ending in Eastbourne would be a good one, if it hasn't been done recently. There is a great ice cream parlour and Spanish restaurant I can recommend in Ebourne.

I've put up a draft post of Walk #238 (Tunbridge Wells-Hildenborough or Tonbridge) for my next 'Third Walk' slot on Sep 5th. If that's too soon I could put it back to Oct 3rd, or perhaps one of the other posters would oblige by offering a later date in September.

For information, there are some footpath closures which affect Walk 96, section 2 (Ash Vale Circular). If you intend to schedule this walk please let me know and I'll produce some alternative directions. The order is in place until Jan 2016.

Meanwhile the footpath closure near Ockham Mill which affects Horsley to West Byfleet has been extended to August 2016. How long does it take to replace a foot bridge? 2 1/2 years apparently!

Hello - is anyone doing TOCW1 walk 44 - Whitley to haslemere this Saturday. Travel instructions recommend buying a day return to haslemere nearest to 10.10 - so assume the train leaving at 10.15 from Waterloo is the best one.

Hi LizI am not sure why you have posted your comment above as the walk is posted on http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/this_week.shtmlas Saturday First Walk Book 1 44 Witley to Haslemere14.2km (8.8 miles)2 out of 10Explorer 133 or Landranger 186Map here http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/book_1/walk_44/map.shtml

Take the 10.15am from London Waterloo ( Clapham Junction 10.22 ) to Witley arriving 11.09 .There are four trains an hour back from Haslemere.Journey time 50-60 minutes. Buy a day return to Haslemere.There are likely to be between 10 and 20 walkers on this going by recent numbers RegardsBridie

This week's Pewsey posting made me think that a Saturday and a Sunday walk in the Pewsey/Avebury area would be nice sometime, not necessarily now. I would book an overnight stay and make a weekend of it.

I just moved to London from Edinburgh and would love to do the Boston Manor to Osterley walk on perhaps the 11th of October?

I'd also love to do an online piece publicising these city walks, however that's just a perhaps at this point. If I did end up doing this video though I just thought I'd point this out in advance as I'd need to get anyone who comes along's permission.

These short London walks are only posted as SWC group walks on summer evenings, although you can of course simply follow the map and/or instructions and do the walk with some friends. If you check out our 'This Week's Walks' page, you'll see that the weekend walks are all likely to be full day walks, at least twice as long.

I would still love to do a walk around the 11th and do a little thing for the internet. Another walk I thought would be cool was the one to Box Hill (and that's not because I heard of it in Emma... :) ) or would that also be to short?

The volunteers who choose the walks each walk should be monitoring this page so you might get your wish. But bear in mind that they might have a particular walk they want to do themselves, requests from fellow walkers to take into consideration, etc. Why not simply check out the walks on offer when they're posted this weekend? It would be surprising if there wasn't at least one which you'd like to try...

Sadly, I won't be able to make it to the Lewes Circular walk on Thurs 5th Nov as I will be working. I had arranged my diary to be free on Wed so am wondering whether you could post the Holmwood to Gomshall walk for Wed 4th Nov. Guess I could do the walk by myself, but I do enjoy the company of Wednesday regular walkers.

Boxing Day request: Totteridge Circular via 3 Hammers pub Mill Hill. It's inside the Zone and I can recommend the pub. Spacious with varied menu and good choice of drinks. Bus stop right outside with a view of Wembley stadium to boot!

Can we have some later starting walks this coming weekend please? Admittedly there was a 10.24 one last Saturday but it was a local area one. At the back end of the year it appears to be a bit harder for some of us older codgers to get up early!!many thanks

Thanks re-Christmas and New Year walks. However, those of us are still working need to decide which days to take off over the Christmas and New Year weeks. Could we know, in advance, which days walks will be posted. Very many thanks much appreciated.

Please could more weekend walks be posted from Books 1 and 2? As a newish member I haven't done most of these yet and find it a bit frustrating to have to print out walk instructions while my shiny new books remain unused. Thank you

The first Saturday walk is usually from book one or two, and book walks are often chosen on Sundays too.

I have sympathy with you for wanting to use your shiny new books, but I have to say that the online versions of the same walks are often better, since they incorporate updates since the books were last revised in 2011. Five years is a long time in the countryside!

Hello Andrew and everyone organising this site,Just to say you do a brilliant and completely professional job with this website and I love it!I am sure many, many people love and appreciate what you and your team do.It adds a wonderful quality to people's lives. That is what the walks meant to me when I went on them every week or almost every week, especially after Nicholas died.But I got out of the routine. There are so many things to do and I still work some weekends.

I just looked at the website and am so impressed! It is fantastic!I am sorry I have not come on walks for years. I am no longer directly involved with the Natural Death Centre, but I do fundraising for them, hold Natural Death Salons at my house and have organised the annual Poetry Challenge. I am a Patron of the NDC now, it is an honorary position. I am so glad the NDC gets much needed support from the walkers! A big thank you for that!

I have been talking with a couple of friends and former Saturday Walkers who walked with Nicholas and me in the '90s to come on a walk. I want do a Haslemere Round walk in May. I will definitely buy you a drink if you or other organisers are on that walk. It should be part of the routine on Saturday Walks, don't you think so?

My best wishes to you, and to all the walkers who remember Nicholas and me.Hats off to you for a brilliant job to keep this going! Nicholas would be so very proud of what you are doing! I am very proud and very happy about it! THANK YOU!

The Natural Death Centre will be 25 years old on 14 April this year. I am holding a small fundraising event with Rosie of the NDC as a speaker and others to talk about the massive movement and changes that have occurred with help of the NDC since we started. This is a Natural Death Salon NW2 at my house on Sunday 19 June.If anyone were interested in coming to this or other Natural Death Salons I hold, they are most welcome to contact me. I also host Death Cafes at La Brioche in West Hampstead. There is one on Monday 21 March.

The Saturday Walkers Club must have a 20th anniversary coming up in a couple of years! I hope it continues for a very long time!

Walk 96 is still affected by a short path closure so I have put an alternative on the website. It has both more concrete and more mud but it's the best I can do!

Any plans to schedule 160 (Farnham/Blackwater) this year? The short version has been walked several times but the full walk I believe was only walked once in June 14 when I was on holiday. There were some issues with people going astray but the feedback I got wasn't much use. I'm quite happy to look after people if we can agree a date!

I try to post different walks for most mid-week walks, but yes, I'll probably post again (for a mid-week walk) September time.In the mean time, I'm sure one of our Saturday/Sunday posters will pick up your request and may be able to schedule a repeat in the near future.

I wonder if it would be possible to assign a generic walk number (e.g 901) for walks in Ullapool so that the folks up there can post a few photos on Flickr as they perform daring do's?Those sauth of Watford could then marvel at the scenery and escapades of those intrepid walkers enjoying the Highlands.

Has anyone noticed that it is summertime and daylight until 9 o'clock. Tring? Oxted? Stonegate? Really? Can we please have some summer walks further out of London in the deep and a glorious English countryside. It's looking at its best at the moment. What are we waiting for? Too zoned into zone 6 IMO. Thanks!

Re the Kingham-Charlbury walk, there's a bus replacement service on 26 June because of engineering work between Reading and Oxford, with journey times around 2½ hours each way. Too long. If you're happy with an alternative date, please suggest it and perhaps one of the other Sunday volunteers will oblige. As it happens I've already written a walk post for an Amberley/Arundel walk on June 26 and I'll probably stick with that.

Is there a reason why you have asked for Sandling to Folkestone on 17 September, rather than any other day? Stargazer has already chosen Hastings to Rye for that day, and it would not make sense to have two swimming/seaside walks on the same day. But Sandling to Folkestone could be done earlier.

Hi PostersI have a friend visiting on Saturday 17 September and she has arthritis in her hips.Could one of you post an easy walk of 1/2/3 out of 10 and say 10 miles ish please Thanks for all the walks SB

Redbridge Council have posted an "epic" walk on Sunday 11th September see Epping Forest Centenary WalkNot sure how this would fit in with the Sunday Posters ? but mentioned just in case they might like to mention it

Whilst I fully appreciate that weather and trains can impact planned walks at short notice, It would be really helpful to have a little more forward visibility of upcoming walks. Would it be possible to see what walk-posters are considering a month in advance? (obviously with the caveat of possible changes) Thank you!

Speaking personally I don't actually plan ahead. I prefer to be spontaneous and pick a walk based on likely weather and other conditions (RMT strikes, last minute requests) etc.

Some posters do put up firm advance posts (see bottom of This Week listing) and some do indicate possible future posts on the blog (which the rest of you do not see - only posters). Whether they would a) like to have these drafts made public or b) it could be done in such a way that does not cause confusion, I do not know. Eg, even if a walk is indicated as a possible for several weeks time, posters can and do change their minds for various reasons. Is there any point in giving a forward indication of something, only to find the walk has not after all been posted? Would we then not get complaints that "you said this walk was going to happen, I planned a weekend away around it, and now you have moved it?"

TOCW1.20 (Milford - Godalming), with a detour to Hydon's Ball (a hill top), which was given to the NT in memory of 1 of its 3 co-founders, Octavia Hill, a social reformer who campaigned for the preservation of both urban and rural countryside. It may make the walk too long for winter though, so may have to wait for spring.

I have a general request for walk postings. Would it be possible to post Sunday walks from the books a little more frequently than they currently are? Not a lot more, but maybe one more every 4-6 weeks? It seems that more often than not it is one of the internet walks, which are equally as good as the book walks, but not having access to a printer, and having been the sole walker before makes me hesitant to join these walks. I understand it is lot of work trying to make everyone happy, and many of the long term members are a little tired of these well trodden walks. I would greatly appreciate it if a few more book walks could be posted on Sundays, and I am grateful that the time is taken to do all the leg work to post any walks in the first place. Many thanksKaren

Hi,I would like to add an event for 25th november .this is a lunch-time concert given by myself and a violinist friend.Could you please advise how to put this onto to the site.It is a free event.thanks, eliz parker

Invite to a free lunchtime concert on Friday 25th November 12.30 -13.10 at st George's church Beckenham. The closest station is Beckenham Junction - this is just a few minutes walk from the church. The programme is Hoffmeister duo for violin and cello ( this is a very tuneful piece, rather like mozart) and Ravel duo for violin and cello. Cellist is Eliz parker ( a saturday walker) and violinist Stephen Stewart.You are invited back to my house for some nibbles!

Can I make a request for my birthday on Sat 17th June, when I reach a figure more commonly associated with tins of soup or baked beans or various other varieties? How about No 180, Southbourne to Emsworth?

For information, the section of canal towpath South of Ash Vale station has eroded and is currently closed. It affects my Ash Circular (but not Ash Vale to Worplesdon). If you want to post this over one of the imminent BHs, let me know and I'll come up with some alternative directions!

Perhaps the Balcombe Circular or Balcombe to East Grinstead could be posted to coincide with the Wild wood weekend at Wakehurst - 27 May to 29 May 2017, 10am to 5pm(http://www.kew.org/wakehurst/whats-on/wild-wood-weekend-at-wakehurst)

Wrotham Classic Car and Steam Rally takes place on Sunday 1 July 2018 which might be of interest as it is at the start of the Borough Green to Sevenoaks walk (SWC 36). There is an entry fee for the rally (Adult £8, Senior Citizen £6, Child, £3) but if you are willing to buy a ticket in advance, Groupon offer a discount (Adult £6.50, Senior Citizen £4.50, Child £2.50) which can be purchased from here

Always grateful to all the walk posters for the effort they put in to the website for our walks. The trend of posting in advance is very welcome. Would it be possible to know any option for the Monday bank holiday?

This year's Snowdrop teas will be held in St. Mary's Church, Radnage (Saunderton via Bledlow) on Saturday 9th and Saturday 16th February.The snowdrops can't be guaranteed, but the quality of the tea and cakes surely can.Please note the change from previous years when they were held on Sunday afternoons.

Can I request one or two of the following walks in the spring please? Walks 229/230/231/232 (all in the Flitwick area). Walk 195: Cheddingtom to Leighton Buzzard.Good dates are: 23rd Feb, 9th or 16th March, 13th, 20th or 27th April (all Sats).Thanks. Mike. Powell underscore michaelc at sky dot com

Thanks for scheduling the Harlington walk on Saturday, a good day all round. Claire expressed an interest in posting one of the other Flitwick walks, could someone remind her? I see I've misread my diary though, I am away 9th to 16th March, but after that could do 23rd, 30th or 13th April, or any Weds except 13/3. I'm also up for the Huntingdon circular some time!

A little rhyme to requestA walk that is amongst the bestNear Hever, Penshurst or LeighOne Saturday, soon, while the ground is dryThis gentle, scenic corner of KentWhere many a happy day has been spentNever fails to disappointAnd is quite gentle on the joints!

HelloI missed the Flitwick walk a couple of saturdays ago. I notice that there is only one walk posted so far for Saturday 6/4. It would be great if a walk going from St Pancras or Kings Cross could be posted - on purely selfish grounds, I need to be in Bedford that night, plus I haven't walked round there much recently. Thank you! (and thanks to all the posters generally!)Judith

Hello! I would like to request the Crowhurst to Battle walk from Book 1. I don't have a particular date in mind, except on a weekend, but I would like to walk it with the group some time this summer. Plus, it hasn't had a weekend outing since 2016!

This week's walks: Two walks within a stone's throw of each other on the south coast, but again nothing west of London. Posters please would you try to avoid such unequal distribution of walks and let us have some westerly walks in future.

Mr M. Tiger you will be pleased to know that the Sandwich Folk & Ale Festival is taking place on 5-7 July.I'm sure some people in the group will be interested in the folk, perhaps even the ale.https://www.facebook.com/SandwichFolkAleFestival/

Hello walk posters! I would like to request the TOCW1.34 Balcombe to East Grinsted walk. I don't have a specific day, except not the weekend of Aug 17th/18th as I will be unable to walk that weekend. But I hope there'll be space for that one in the upcoming months!

Is this something the SWC can take advantage of?TfL are offering a month of free travel on the Overground on the Gospel Oak to Barking line as an apology for the delay and disruption while it was being electrified. The offer is from 31 Aug to 1 Oct.

Could we have Cheshunt circular short walk posted on any date except Sunday 15th December? It’s short, easily reachable and It has quite a few firm paths so should work well at the moment despite the short days, train strikes and mud.

Wassailing?? You want some festive drinking at the end of an SWC group walk?

A cursory study of the Walk Reports should reveal the type of walk where the production of a bottle or two of red on the train back leads to some outrageous behaviour. No-one will confirm it, but I suspect the length and solidity of the recent SWR strike was in no small part due to the wassailing at the end of some SWC west country walks.

Even the urban Sunday walks are not immune from this type of exuberant activity. Luckily, I don't think the Forest Hill Neighbourhood Watch will be able to track down S*a and the Peppermints...

Last time I made a request nobody else showed up! Can I request either (or both) of the following please? 31 Huntingdon circular237 Lidlington to FlitwickRe. Huntingdon, I would be dependant on a once a day bus, so if you could make it a start about 10-10.15 that would be great.Possible dates are 22nd or 29th Feb, 21st or 28th March.

Sorry to hear about your broken ankle, Anonymous. I wasn't planning to re-post this walk soon as some people did turn out for it last Saturday, despite the weather. In any case we have hundreds of other walks to choose from and I prefer to pick walks which haven't been posted for a while. But one of my colleagues told me that he was considering posting it in the bluebell season (April/May), so you might get your wish. [Sean]

This is more a suggestion than a request but how about this walk one Saturday? If I remember right, the morning paths are largely firm underfoot and there are sandy soils in the afternoon. Walk 1-12 as far as The Donkey in Charleshill, then changing to Walk 2-12 from the Donkey back to Farnham. 16.2km (10.1 miles).